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“I have problems and I have fun”: Funniness ratings of memes about psychological problems reflect how people relate them to themselves and correlate with rumination, reflection, self-liking, and self-competence [PDF]

open access: yesCurrent Issues in Personality Psychology
Background Some internet memes relate to specific psychological problems, such as pessimism, anxiety, procrastination, depression, masking feelings, social isolation, and coping with problems.
Łukasz Jach   +3 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Fridays for Future and Mondays for Memes: How Climate Crisis Memes Mobilize Social Media Users

open access: yesMedia and Communication, 2023
Modern protest movements rely on digital activism on social media, which serves as a conduit for mobilization. In the social media landscape, internet memes have emerged as a popular practice of expressing political protest.
Michael Johann   +2 more
doaj   +2 more sources

The Function of Memes in Political Discourse. [PDF]

open access: yesTopoi (Dordr)
The use of memes has become increasingly widespread in political discourse. However, there is a dearth of philosophical discussion on memes and their impact on political discourse.
Anderau G, Barbarrusa D.
europepmc   +2 more sources

Persuasion Through Bitter Humor: Multimodal Discourse Analysis of Rhetoric in Internet Memes of Two Far-Right Groups in Finland

open access: yesSocial Media and Society, 2020
This study focuses on the role of Internet memes in the communication of two far-right groups in Finland. The material consists of 426 memes posted by Finland First and the Soldiers of Odin between the years 2015 and 2017 on Facebook.
Inari Sakki, Eemeli Hakoköngäs
exaly   +2 more sources

MOMENTA: A Multimodal Framework for Detecting Harmful Memes and Their Targets [PDF]

open access: yesConference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2021
Internet memes have become powerful means to transmit political, psychological, and socio-cultural ideas. Although memes are typically humorous, recent days have witnessed an escalation of harmful memes used for trolling, cyberbullying, and abuse ...
Shraman Pramanick   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Psychological Perspectives on Participatory Culture: Core Motives for the Use of Political Internet Memes

open access: yesJournal of Social and Political Psychology, 2022
Political Internet memes significantly contribute to discourse around contemporary events. By studying memes, scholars understand these ‘units of culture’ as forms of participatory content that can fulfill political functions.
Anne Leiser
doaj   +1 more source

MemeCap: A Dataset for Captioning and Interpreting Memes [PDF]

open access: yesConference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2023
Memes are a widely popular tool for web users to express their thoughts using visual metaphors. Understanding memes requires recognizing and interpreting visual metaphors with respect to the text inside or around the meme, often while employing ...
Eunjeong Hwang, V. Shwartz
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Decoding the Underlying Meaning of Multimodal Hateful Memes [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2023
Recent studies have proposed models that yielded promising performance for the hateful meme classification task. Nevertheless, these proposed models do not generate interpretable explanations that uncover the underlying meaning and support the ...
M. Hee, Wen-Haw Chong, Roy Ka-Wei Lee
semanticscholar   +1 more source

A Discourse Analysis of Education Memes on Instagram

open access: yesLoquen, 2021
In the modern era, human has many ways to communicate, interact, and spread the idea. With the advancement of digital technologies, there are various media to convey messages; one of which is through internet memes.
Yosi Destira   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Memeing Politics: Understanding Political Meme Creators, Audiences, and Consequences on Social Media

open access: yesSocial Media + Society, 2023
Political memes have become a common way for people to be exposed to political content and express their political views online. However, little is known about who shares political memes online or whether exposure to memes is associated with key ...
Audrey Halversen, Brian E. Weeks
doaj   +1 more source

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